CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXI. 



By D. G. Elliot, D. Sc 

 By Robert Cushman 

 By Charles Wendell 



NUMBER I. 



In Memoriam: Philip Lutley Sclater 



F. R. S. E., etc. (Plate I) 

 Preliminary Description of a New Petrel. 



Murphy. (Plate II) .... 



A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider. 



Townsend, M. D 



On the Habits and Behavior of the Herring Gull, Lartjs 



argentatus Pont. By R. M. Strong. (Plates III-X.) 

 Notes on Nest Life of the Brown Creeper in Massachusetts 



By Winsor M. Tyler ....... 



The Fallacy of the Tendency towards Ultraminute Dis- 

 tinctions. By J. D. FiGGiNS 



Notes on the Ornithology of Clay and Palo Alto Counties 



Iowa. By A. D. Tinker. (Plates XI-XII.) . 

 Additions to "Notes on Some Summer and Fall Birds of the 



Crooked Lake Region, Cass and Crow Wing Counties 



Minn." By Albert W. Honywill, Jr 



Some Binary Generic Names. By Gregory M. Mathews, F. R. S. E 

 Thirty-first Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists 



Union. By John H. Sage 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



Brow^^ Pelican Regular off North Carolina, 100; Recovery of a Banded 

 Pintail Duck, 100; American Egret (Herodias egretta) at Martha's 

 Vineyard, Mass., 100; The Willet in Central New York, 100; Kill- 

 deer Plover at Cambridge, Mass., 101; Turkey Vulture (Ca.thartes 

 aura septentrionalis) at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 101; Doryfera 

 vs. Hemistephania, 101; Phoebe {Sayornis phcebe) in Colorado, 

 102; The Fox Sparrow in Central Park, New York City, in 

 August, 102; An Abnormal Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 102; Two 

 Prothonotary Warblers in Massachusetts; 103; Tennessee War- 

 bler (Vermivora peregrina) in Massachusetts in Autumn, 103, 

 Mourning Warbler (Oporornis Philadelphia) in Florida, 103; 

 Hooded Warbler at Boston, Mass., 104; Hooded Warbler at 

 Nahant, Mass., 104; Some Rare Birds at Hamilton, Kansas, 104; 

 A Quaint Reminiscence of Audubon, 105; Correction, 106. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Gurney's 'The Gannett,' 107; Sage and Bishop on the Birds of Con- 

 necticut, 108; Tyler on Some Birds of the Fresno District, Cali- 

 fornia, 109; Grinnell and Swarth on the Bu-ds and Mammals of 

 the San Jacinto Area of Southern California, 110; Gifford's 'Birds 

 of the Galapagos Islands,' 112; Brooks' List of the Birds of 

 West Virginia, 112; Bailey's 'Life Zones and Crop Zones of New 

 Mexico,' 113; Todd on New Neotropical Birds, 113; Kirkham's 

 'North and South,' 114; Wood on Michigan Birds, 115; Howell 

 on New Birds from Alabama, 115; Mearns on New African Birds, 



